Word: typee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McCarthy declined to elaborate on the type of expansion she objects to because she plans to meet soon with the Tufts board of trustees...
...order to identify the proper way to take such a momentous step as a shareholder resolution, the ACSR distinguishes between "action" and "information" resolutions. The ACSR considers the former, which asks companies to take steps to further racial progress in South Africa, "relatively ineffective." The latter type--considerably more effective we are to infer, and thus the ACSR's preferred type of shareholder resolution--merely asks for more information from companies operating in South Africa about what they're doing there. But the ACSR hasn't told us what it plans to do with all this information which it will...
...THOSE bona fide type crazies was preaching on the street corner the other day. Four feet tall with a placard. "Listen," he said, "and know that man's powers of dispossession are far greater than his powers of possession." Terrific. "There are a lot of luxury cars out there, but even the wealthiest people can own but a few." This is true. "On the other hand," he said with absolute glee, "It's entirely possible not to own hundreds of thousands of Mercedes...
This is as it should be. Yet the problem with this type of thinking is that it is easily perverted: it makes the step from one world, where there are very few moral absolutes, to another world, where there are none, all too simple. The fact that many students of professional ethics are left to assume the basic moral principles of the world, leaves them the freedom to assume that they do not exist at all. "The ethics of the situation" obscure the morality of the human condition; living for the moment, for the immediate context, the professional...
...know over the last year we have seen much change. Solzhenitsyn thinks it is not a clever society, but he doesn't understand the necessities of a pluralistic society. I think that only Western society could correct life in the whole world. Totalitarianism is not good for this type of change...